Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Southern Lemon Chess Pie

By Kathy Smith


Lemon chess pie is a well-established Southern delicacy and can also be stumbled upon in numerous soul food tasty recipes. It tastes light as well as delightful. Whenever lemons are in season, their own ripe scent brings exceptional depth to this particular sweet. My grandma swears that, when she was a young girl, the Baton Rouge Country Club made "the most excellent ever" lemon chess pie. Garnish with whipped cream, vanilla flavor ice cream, berries or maybe blueberries if preferable.

Ingredients:
1 unbaked 9" pie crust (technique directly below)
three eggs
three tbsps of melted butter that has cooled
three tablespoons of milk (either whole or low-fat are going to do)
cup plus one tbs of lemon juice (fresh squeezed is better)
1 tbsp . of grated lemon rind
one tbs flour
1 tbsp . cornmeal
1 cups white sugar

Pre-heat the oven to 375. In a medium size bowl, gently whisk the eggs. Add in the flour, cornmeal and also sugar and blend. After that, add the butter and blend. Last, add the milk, fresh lemon juice and lemon rind and mix together. Pour the mix into the unbaked pie shell and bake approximately 40-45 minutes, or until such time as an inserted toothpick comes out clean.

Permit the pie cool totally and dish out at room temperature. Or, as soon as the pie has cooled you'll be able to chill it within the fridge just before offering it.

Pie Crust
This specific pie crust would make enough for 2 pies, however I prefer a lot of crust and consequently I work with the entire recipe for one pie With my friends and family, I actually have become renowned for this pie crust which can be flaky and buttery.

Materials:
2 cups all-purpose flour
tsp. salt
2 sticks of ice cold unsalted butter or lb (if salted is the thing that you might have on hand, then lessen the salt earlier mentioned to tsp.)
cup particularly chilled cold water (I really like to stash the measuring cup of water within the fridge freezer or add an ice cube to it while I combine up the various other components)

In a substantial bowl, mix the flour as well as salt together right up until properly combined. Place the bowl inside fridge while you start preparing the butter.

Cut the ice cold butter into pieces around the dimensions of a pea. Work fairly quickly to ensure that the butter continues to be firm as well as chilled. Insert the butter into the flour mix.

Utilizing a pastry cutter or 2 forks, blend the flour and butter together with each other till the combo looks like rough meal. Work swiftly and strive to complete within 3-4 minutes.

Integrate the cold water little by little when using the pastry cutter or forks to mix. Put in water until the dough just scarcely sticks together when squeezed. Never add such an abundance of water that the dough becomes sticky.

Cover the dough in plastic wrap and give it time to relax in your refrigerator for an hour or even in the freezer for 30 minutes. Once this has perfectly chilled, roll it out in a even, round circle which is large enough to slip in a 8" - 9" pie pan.

Grease the pie pan lightly with butter and after that add the pie crust, forming it to the pan. Once again, do not overwork it or otherwise the crust will not end up being light and flaky. Lightly brush the crust with an egg white to keep it from being soggy from the lemon filling. Return the crust to the fridge right up until the filling is ready to be added in.




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